Though Kelly barely survives his attack, his pregnant wife is killed in the melee, leaving him distraught and vengeful. Though the mission seems successful at the outset, it leads a band of mostly faceless Russians to take revenge on the Americans who took part. Jordan cuts a convincing enough figure as Kelly, a Navy SEAL who leads a mission in Syria in the opening minutes that pushes him and his cohorts into intensely heartbreaking tragedy. But Without Remorse has an incredibly functional, bland storytelling approach, making it as soulless as a cutscene from one of the many Clancy-inspired video games. Jordan is meant to inspire a potential long-running franchise with the tough-as-nails John Kelly taking down bad guys worldwide without any.well, just read the title. Ostensibly, this actioner starring Michael B. Those games, and many other military-driven shooter games, feel like the true inspiration for the new straight-to-streaming film Without Remorse. The vast bibliography of the late Tom Clancy has inspired countless film and TV adaptations, but it's also led to massively successful video-game series like Splinter Cell and Ghost Recon.
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